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1) The anomaly
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer; Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star tired of living a lie; Joanna,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn't exist before - and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her. This doppelgänger is sweet and biddable where Tamsin is calculating...
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 659
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Madrid, un Madrid singular, vuelve a ser el escenario de la también singular narrativa de Esther García Llovet. En esta ocasión el protagonista es un humorista apodado Castor, famoso por sus monólogos televisivos. La vida de Castor está regida por la suerte y el azar. Y tirando del hilo del azar conoce a su doble, un camarero llamado Julio. Son como dos gotas de agua, y a Castor se le ocurre que Julio puede sustituirlo en algunos saraos, porque...
Author
Series
Treehouse series volume 13
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Andy and Terry live in a 169-story treehouse. (It used to be a 156-story treehouse, but they've added 13 more stories.) It now has a kangaroo-riding range, a whatever-weather-you-want dome and a hall of funhouse mirrors--the perfect place to hide from the truancy officer who is trying to catch them and make them go to school! Unfortunately, the hall of funhouse mirrors is also the place where their evil trouble-making twins, Anti-Andy, Terrible Terry...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
The latest caper from Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel filters the language of film noir through their characteristically colorful palette to create a series of deceptively minimalistic set pieces that recall the best of Tati and Keaton. Abel plays Boris, a former activist hiding from his dark past, keeping in the shadows as a barkeeper until a one-armed vigilante finally hunts him down. The fortuitous appearance of a double the depressive recluse...
6) Us
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Haunted by trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway: doppelgangers of themselves.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Beth has never had any friends and she has always been kind of invisible at school, so when a new girl, Lizzie, moves into her building she thinks that she has finally found a best friend; but things turn creepy when Lizzie starts copying Beth so exactly that she might be a twin--and Beth starts to wonder if Lizzie is a friend or something a lot more sinister.
9) Unseen magic
Author
Series
Unseen magic volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Fin has never felt safe until she and her mother move to the magic-infused town of Aldermere in the Pacific Northwest, but when the town is suddenly overrun with disturbances Fin is the only one who knows why--and she's the only one who can stop the havoc"-- Provided by publisher.
10) The Icarus girl
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
11) Septology
Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbor, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers--two versions of...
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